...and I think that the old Nightstalker series succeeded because of Darren McGavin who played Kolchak. They tried to recast the role with some pretty-boy in the new one...jumped the shark before it even got on the air! McGavin's Kolchak was a sort of Oscar Madison (of the Odd Couple) type: a slob and disorganized with the ability to talk people into almost anything (they probably pitied him, he was such a schmuck) and just happened to run into every kind of superntural being imaginable and then bumble his way through to a happy conclusion...well, happy for everyone except maybe the vampire/werewolf/zombie/etc...

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